Prelims

Impact of Industry 4.0 on Supply Chain Sustainability

Impact of Industry 4.0 on Supply Chain Sustainability: Current Status and Future Pathways

Edited By

K. Mathiyazhagan

Thiagarajar School of Management, India

Aakanksha Kishore

FORE School of Management, India

Behzad Behdani

University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway

And

Heena Thanki

Shri Jairambhai Patel Institute of Business Management and Computer Applications, India

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dr K. Mathiyazhagan is the Chairperson – Research Center and Associate Professor, Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He is an Assistant Editor in Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier) – IF: 12, an Associate Editor in Business Strategy and the Environment (Wiley) – IF: 13.4, Management Decision (Emerald) – IF: 4.9 and Environment, Development and Sustainability Journal (Springer) with an impact factor of 4.1. He is a leading Guest Editor of special issues in Journal of Business Logistics (JBL), the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM), the International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM), Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier), and Socio-Economic Planning Science (Elsevier). He has also been an editorial member in many reputed journals. Also, he has been listed among the Top 2% of scientists (Stanford's list World's Top 2% of scientists). He has published in numerous journals, including IJPE, IJPR, PPC, IEEE TEM, JCP, RCR, etc., with more than 5,000 research citations. One of his papers was awarded the Excellence Citation Award by Emerald Publisher Ltd. In addition, he is editing international books on Blockchain & Lean-Green & Society 4.0 in Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and Springer publishers. He was invited to visit Roma TRE University, Italy, in February 2023 for research collaboration and invited to visit Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, to organize a joint international research excellence workshop on September 7, 2023. He is an active reviewer of more than 30 reputed international journals, receiving the best reviewer certificates from reputed journals.

Dr Aakanksha Kishore is working as an Assistant Professor in the area of Operations Management at FORE School of Management, New Delhi. She is a graduate in Mathematics Honors from Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, and holds a Master's degree in Operational Research from Hindu College, University of Delhi. She has a doctorate in Inventory Management from Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi. She is also CSIR-NET qualified in Mathematical Sciences in the year 2013. She is an expert in devising inventory strategies/policies for operations managers through mathematical modeling. To her credit, she has various international research publications in ABDC/SCI/SCIE/SCOPUS indexed journals viz. Journal of Cleaner Production, Expert Systems with Applications, Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, Scientia Iranica, RAIRO – Operations Research, Control & Cybernetics, Mathematics, International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations, International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics, and International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences, to name a few. She has also received Best Paper Awards for four of her publications. She is a recipient of “Award of Excellence in Research 2022,” by International Journal for Modern Trends in Science and Technology in October 2022. She was also awarded “Distinguished Faculty Award” for her academic contribution in the session 2021–2022.

Dr Behzad Behdani is a Professor in Supply Chain and Operations Management at USN School of Business. He has done extensive research on some groundbreaking aspects of operations and supply chain management, among others, supply chain analytics, operations management at the early-stage innovative companies (the link between innovation/technology management and operations management), food supply chains and operation, and intermodal transport, and logistics. Behzad's research also deals with how we can embed the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the design and operations of global supply chains.

Dr Heena Thanki is working as an Associate Professor for the MBA program at the Gujarat Technological University's Shri Jairambhai Patel Institute of Management and Computer Applications (SJPI) (formerly known as National Institute of Cooperative Management) Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Before joining the academic and research sector, she worked at the ICICI Prudential Limited – India's leading insurance provider. She holds a PhD in Finance, a Diploma in Export–Import Management, and has completed BBA and MBA. She was awarded Junior Research Fellow (JRF) for being among the top 6% of the University Grants Commission's National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) qualified candidates. She has been extensively working in teaching, training, and research domain for over a decade and specializes in financial management, behavioral finance, research methodology, entrepreneurship, and ethics and corporate governance. Her research papers are published and presented at various national- and international-level journals and conferences. Most of her research work has also been published in top-ranked reputed journals of globally acclaimed ranking lists, such as the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) and Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS). She has also won many awards for her research papers.